Business Demands Drive The Next-Generation Data
Center
Global organizations today face formidable challenges as they compete in a fast-paced and changing business environment.
Consider some IT trends that impact the way organizations do business:

The need for information demands a Data Center that supports on-line
analytical processing and decision support systems

Your Data Center may, in fact, already be managing hundreds of terabytes of data, fielding requests from thousands of
visitors a day to your organization's Web site, managing sophisticated information transactions, or deploying new
resource-intensive business applications. Meeting the expectations of your users both now and in the future requires
agility and the ability to maintain effective economies while protecting your investments.

C-Byte Delivers Data Center Infrastructure for a New
Era
At C-Byte, we have achieved broad success in minimizing risk to organizations as they move to an open, scalable
environment. We also have the vision to help you capitalize on your IT investment. Our structured path to building a
Data Center infrastructure gives you the technology advantage now and in the future.

C-Byte helps you build a flexible, adaptable Data Center with:

A robust platform with the scalability, availability, and
manageability you need to run business-critical applications

The architectural flexibility to support an open systems environment
that embraces legacy, Unix, and Windows as these forces converge in the Data Center

Delivering the Data Center Essentials
C-Byte's Data Center solution utilizes the power of our Intel®-based architecture.
The first true mainframe-caliber open systems platformmelds the performance, scalability and
manageability advantages often associated with mainframes with the compatibility and versatility of open systems
computing.

To complement this robust platform, C-Byte's Data Center solution encompasses a range of C-Byte services that focus on
building, deploying, and managing an open Data Center. These services leverage the unrivaled experience that C-Byte has
accrued with more successful installations of high-end, open systems solutions.

Our Data Center solution also integrates best-of-breed products and services from a proven network of industry-leading
partners. Capitalizing on these skills and technologies, C-Byte crafts a next-generation Data Center that is tailored
to your business requirements and applications.

A Structured Data Center Solution
C-Byte's Data Center solution is a structured approach built around several essential disciplines to create a flexible,
adaptable next-generation Data Center that meets the expectations of your users.

Scalable, Flexible Computing Platform
C-Byte is uniquely positioned to bring the power of Intel's architecture to your Data Center. Paralleling Intel's
development roadmap, we designed the architecture around the Intel Pentium® processor to bring its
inherent scalability and adaptability to our Data Center platform. As processor technology continues to evolve, C-Byte
can take full advantage of the increased computing power that new chip sets provide.

This scalability leaves plenty of headroom in your Data Center to accommodate exponential
growth of data and processing requirements.

We support the broad operating flexibility crucial in heterogeneous environments, thus helping you
capitalize on your investment in legacy, Unix, and Windows. It also provides a path for Windows to the Data
Center. C-Byte is uniquely capable of supporting a combined Unix/Windows Data Center operating environmentall
in the same system; thus, when Windows is ready for the Data Center, C-Byte will be ready for Windows.

High Availability
C-Byte's expertise in open systems architecture and our suite of Data Center services are leveraged to create a high
availability environment with 99.95 percent or better data and applications availability on a 7x24 basis.

C-Byte addresses data integration between legacy systems and open systems by supporting industry leaders in storage
management. To achieve application integration, we pull together a complete package of best-of-breed hardware and
software tools that meet your business needs. We support operations integration by extending systems management planning
services to encompass the legacy environment.

Storage Management
With data volumes quadrupling every three years, storage management warrants special concern. C-Byte provides a sound
foundation for the powerful storage and backup capabilities that are critical components of your Data Center. C-Byte
offers storage management design services to help you develop effective enterprise data management specifications that
protect and restore data without compromising your level of service. Our services help you maximize the
architecture, which today supports more than 100 terabytes of storage, and choose the appropriate best-of-breed on-line
and off-line storage solutions to meet your ever-increasing storage demands.

Performance and Capacity Management
C-Byte draws on extensive experience in tuning high-end systems and databases to help you create the optimal solution
for performance and capacity management. Advanced instrumentation provides detailed data about your systems. A wide
selection of tools provides real-time and historical reporting. Our services help you configure, tune, and develop
capacity plans for your systems.

Service Level Monitoring and Reporting
C-Byte has the tools and services to help you establish and then manage your organization's service levels. By
leveraging best-of-breed measurement tools for efficient monitoring and reporting of service levels, our Data Center
solution makes it easy to document how well your Data Center meets the needs of users. In addition, C-Byte helps define
policies and procedures that govern exception handling, management reporting, and other tasks that enable successful
management of your Data Center.

The C-Byte Solution for Data Center Success
C-Byte provides a low risk, integrated, open Data Center solution that protects your investments. When you rely on
C-Byte as the infrastructure integrator for building your Data Center, you gain the technology and expertise you need
for successful, enterprise-wide computing. The combined assets of our technical credentials, our experienced services
providers, and our like-minded partners are without equal, ensuring a solution designed for uncompromising scalability,
availability, and manageability. Working with systems integrators, C-Byte creates a computing infrastructure that
supports your business objectivespromising a Data Center solution that serves you and your organization well into
the future.